Karl Taylor Compton

Karl Taylor Compton (Wooster, 14 de setembro de 1887 — Nova Iorque, 22 de junho de 1954) foi um físico norte-americano e presidente do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts (MIT) de 1930 até 1948.[1][2]

Karl Taylor Compton
Karl Taylor Compton Karl Taylor Compton, 1940
Conhecido(a) por	Presidente do MIT
Nascimento	14 de setembro de 1887 Wooster, Ohio
Morte	22 de junho de 1954 (66 anos) Nova Iorque
Nacionalidade	norte-americano
Cônjuge	Mary Evelyn
Alma mater	Universidade de Princeton
Prêmios	Medalha Hoover (1950)
Religião	Presbiteriano
Instituições	Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts
Campo(s)	Física

Referências

Borth, Christy. Masters of Mass Production, pp.14-15, Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1945.
In: Joan Warnow-Blewett, Jürgen Teichmann. Guide to sources for history of solid state physics. Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, 1992. pp. 60.

Ligações externas

«Biografia presidencial oficial» (em inglês). no site do MIT
«Biografia» (PDF) (em inglês). na Academia Nacional de Ciências dos Estados Unidos

Presidentes da American Physical Society
1899-1925	1899 Henry Augustus Rowland • 1901 Albert Abraham Michelson • 1903 Arthur Gordon Webster • 1905 Carl Barus • 1907 Edward Leamington Nichols • 1909 Henry Crew • 1911 William Francis Magie • 1913 Benjamin Osgood Peirce • 1914 Ernest Merritt • 1916 Robert Andrews Millikan • 1918 Henry Andrews Bumstead • 1919 Joseph Sweetman Ames • 1921 Theodore Lyman • 1923 Thomas Corwin Mendenhall • 1925 Dayton Miller
1926-1950	1927 Karl Taylor Compton • 1929 Henry Gale • 1931 William Francis Gray Swann • 1933 Paul Darwin Foote • 1934 Arthur Holly Compton • 1935 Robert Williams Wood • 1936 Floyd Richtmyer • 1937 Harrison Randall • 1938 Lyman James Briggs • 1939 John Tate • 1940 John Zeleny • 1941 George Braxton Pegram • 1941 Gideon Tabor Stewart • 1942 Percy Williams Bridgman • 1943 Albert Hull • 1944 Arthur Jeffrey Dempster • 1945 Harvey Fletcher • 1946 Edward Condon • 1947 Lee Alvin DuBridge • 1948 Robert Oppenheimer • 1949 Francis Wheeler Loomis • 1950 Isidor Isaac Rabi
1951-1975	1951 Charles Christian Lauritsen • 1952 John Hasbrouck Van Vleck • 1953 Enrico Fermi • 1954 Hans Bethe • 1955 Raymond Thayer Birge • 1956 E. Wigner • 1957 Henry DeWolf Smyth • 1958 Jesse Beams • 1959 George Eugene Uhlenbeck • 1960 Victor Weisskopf • 1961 Frederick Seitz • 1962 William Vermillion Houston • 1963 John Harry Williams • 1964 Robert Bacher • 1965 Felix Bloch • 1966 John Archibald Wheeler • 1967 Charles Hard Townes • 1968 John Bardeen • 1969 Luis Walter Alvarez • 1970 Edward Mills Purcell • 1971 Robert Serber • 1972 Philip McCord Morse • 1973 Joseph Edward Mayer • 1974 Wolfgang Panofsky • 1975 Chien-Shiung Wu
1976-2000	1976 William Alfred Fowler • 1977 George Pake • 1978 Norman Foster Ramsey • 1979 Lewis Branscomb • 1980 Herman Feshbach • 1981 Arthur Schawlow • 1982 Maurice Goldhaber • 1983 Robert Marshak • 1984 Mildred Dresselhaus • 1985 Robert Rathbun Wilson • 1986 Sidney Drell • 1987 Val Logsdon Fitch • 1989 J. Krumhansl • 1990 Eugen Merzbacher • 1991 Nicolaas Bloembergen • 1992 Ernest Henley • 1993 Donald Langenberg • 1994 Burton Richter • 1995 Chandra Kumar Patel • 1996 John Robert Schrieffer • 1997 David Allan Bromley • 1998 Andrew Sessler • 1999 Jerome Isaac Friedman • 2000 James Langer
2001-futuro	2001 George Trilling • 2002 William Brinkman • 2003 Myriam Sarachik • 2004 Helen Quinn • 2005 Marvin Cohen • 2006 John Hopfield • 2007 Leo Kadanoff • 2008 Arthur Bienenstock • 2009 Cherry Ann Murray • 2010 Curtis Callan • 2011 Barry Barish • 2012 Robert L. Byer • 2013 Michael Stanley Turner • 2014 Malcolm Beasley • 2015 Sam Aronson • 2016 Homer Neal • 2017 Laura Greene • 2018 Roger Falcone • 2019 David Gross • 2020 Philip H. Bucksbaum

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